Remodeling bathrooms.

[Kurant]

And I have a few questions if anyone can help. I could ask the local Home Depot or somthing, but there was 9 million people in there last night. Didn't feel like hanging around waiting.

My wife and I bought a house a couple years ago, and it was a HUD Home that wasen't trashed, but it needed work. It's a 4 bedroom 3 bath house, built in the early 70's. The house was converted to forced air (I would assume, all the houses in the neighborhood are baseboard and the "boiler room" was converted to a bathroom. I dunno what else to call the room. ) and we've finished all the work except the bathrooms. Now, when the bathroom was converted, the heat register comes out of the bottom of the cabinet, laying sideways, but sitting vertically in the bottom of the cabinet.

What can I do with tile around the heat vent since it basically goes all the way to the floor? I dont want a gap between the tile and the new cabinet along the entire bottom where the heat register comes out.

Slate tile, is it possible to do slate tile in a bathroom, since some of the pieces are not the same in height, what do I do about putting it under the toilet?

Sub-floor, since the house was built in '72 the subfloor in the one bathroom is pretty trashed. I took the floor up to look at it since no one uses the bathroom in the basement. (Well, we do now that it's been finished and remodeled, but at the time, no one did) and part of the subfloor near the tub was really, really bad. But the wood goes in one piece, under the tub. I ned to remove the tub to replace that section of flooring? Or can I just cut away flush with the tub and replace that measured piece of wood?

-- Joe

[vanblah]

Man. I'd get a book on bathroom remodelling and go from there. I have a house built in 1922 and it is in a CONSTANT state of remodelling. We haven't made it to the bathrooms yet but we will. You'd be surprised what a good book will contain. It will most likely address the very situations you are in.

Anytime I start a project I go out and look for books first. A/C; electrical (shh); putting in a load-bearing beam. There are books for everything.

The gap between the tile and the cabinet might be disguised by a piece of molding. I'm not sure exactly what you are dealing with.

Anyway; as far as re-tiling the floor. I'd remove the toilet. Yes it sucks, yes it's nasty but you probably need to do it anyway. You'll have to make sure that you can replace it. They make an adapter if your flange is funky.

The rotting floor around the tub is another matter. Are the joists rotting or just the subfloor?

[Kurant]

The register sits flush into the base of the cabinet, but sits vertically. So, if you took a piece of wood, and laid it flat on the ground, longways, then set upright on the long end, thats how the register sits in the cabinet. I have NO idea what to do with it to make it sit into the cabinet the correct way. We may be hiring a contracter for 2 of the bathrooms specifically for this part.

As for the tile, not sure yet. Going to have to do some research. Going to pick up a couple books at home depot tonight.

The bathroom in the basement is going to require everything being ripped up and replaced. The floor under the tub and the green board was a pleasant surprise. What didn't make any sense, as I've ripped the floor up in the basement bathroom, is the "subfloor" is sitting on concrete... Is that normal? I'm not a builder by any means. But, it's there. It never crossed my mind that it was sitting on concrete until today when I ripped it up. So, it's not that big a deal at all.

The other 2 were both remodeled in 1996 and are just getting tile/cabinets and new toilets, along with paint. Everything else is in tip top shape. I Just have no idea what to do with the tile and the heat registers.